Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit)
Identity
- Preferred Scientific Name
- Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose
- Preferred Common Name
- dragon fruit
- Other Scientific Names
- Cereus tricostatus Rol.-Gosselin
- Cereus trigonus var. guatemalensis Eichlam
- Cereus undatus Pfeiff.
- Cereus undulatus D. Dietr.
- Hylocereus guatemalensis (Eichlam) Britton & Rose
- Hylocereus tricostatus Gosselin (Britton & Rose (1909)
- International Common Names
- Englishbelle of the nightnight-blooming cereuspitahayaqueen of the nightred pitahayastrawberry pear
- Spanishpitahaya blancapitahaya dulcepitahaya roja
- Frenchfruit du dragonpitahaya rougepitaya
- Chineseliang tian chi
- Portuguesecardo-ananazcato-barse
- Local Common Names
- Brazilpitaya vermelha de polpa branca
- Cubaflor de cálizpitahaya
- GermanyDistelbirneDrachenfruchtKonigin der nachtRotepitahaya
- Mexicojunco tapatiopitahaya de cardopitahaya orejona
- Puerto Ricoflor de calizpitahayapitajavapitaya
- Swedenrod pitahayaskogskaktus
- USA/Hawaiipaninniokapunahoupapipi pua
- Vietnamthanh long
- EPPO code
- HCRUN (Hylocereus undatus)
Pictures
Fruit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); fruits; whole, sectioned, pulp removed.
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Fruiting habit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); fruiting habit. (38 days post-flowering).
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Fruit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); fruits on plant.
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Habit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); habit, in its invasive form, scrambling over a wall and into a tree canopy. Haleakala Ranch, Makawao, Hawaii. February 2012.
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Habit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); habit, in its invasive form, scrambling over a wall. Keokea, Hawaii, USA. March, 2007.
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Habit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); habit, in its invasive form, scrambling over a wall. Keokea, Hawaii, USA. March, 2007.
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Foliage
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); foliage. Kula Agriculture Park, Hawaii, USA. June, 2012.
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Flower
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); flower and foliage. Hawaii, USA. February, 2002.
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Edge of leaflet
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); edge of leaflet, showing groups of three, short, spines. Hawaii, USA. February, 2002.
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Flower
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); spent flower and foliage. Hawaii, USA. February, 2002.
©Forest & Kim Starr-2002 - CC BY 3.0
Developing fruit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); remnants of flower, with developing fruit. Kula Agriculture Park, Hawaii, USA. June, 2012.
©Forest & Kim Starr-2012 - CC BY 3.0
Fruit
Hylocereus undatus (dragon fruit); fruit and leaf. Maui, Hawaii, USA. September, 2012.
©Forest & Kim Starr-2012 - CC BY 3.0
Distribution
Prevention and Control
Public Awareness
On Niue, where weedy H. undatus has not been easy to eliminate, particularly when plants become established in rocky areas, public education is recommended in order to prevent the dumping of garden waste which contains H. undatus plant material and to discourage further planting of the species (Space et al., 2004).
Physical/Mechanical Control
Manual removal is the only control method mentioned in the literature (Hadden et al., 2005).
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Published online: 4 October 2022
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